Isekai Samurai - Ch. 47

[Qwest]

We're going to get an arc about glorious nippon superior blacksmithing techniques that the dwarves will be fascinated by

 

[Dtrex]

Great and no place to get another Japanese katana

 

[Serverclosed]

Uh oh. Now what?

 

[SHARKBEARAGATOR]

A lot of good Ginkos this chapter. She's so precious.

Shame about that glorious nippon steel though, looks like it got the other kind of folded when put against dragon scales

 

[ekriuiui]

oh shit

 

[AlvoradaGD]

Now this is how a battle with a dragon should be! I don't care how often it plays out this way, but a dragon being an apex if monster-kind will always feel right to me. Also I could see that sword break from a mile away, but considering no one else (to my memory) use katana in this world, getting it repaired might actually be a somewhat relevant plot point for the future. You can't have a samurai without a katana!... unless they're an archer which made up a significant portion of samurai historically speaking.

to be fair, Ginko is more samurai-like in spirit and values than actual fighting, and she knows how to handle other weapons too. But I guess she will always turn back to the katana in the end.

 

[DunkmasterKyouko]

You'd think a samurai would know to aim for the gaps in armour instead of hitting right in the middle of the scale. Ah well.

 

[Shinobu]

Give her a magic sword now

 

[Zhangar]

Ginko shaking off her own blood like a dog shaking off water is sending me.

Kind of glad that her ordinary Earth katana finally snapped; now she can get one made out of much better material than the shit-grade stuff that Japan was stuck with back in that era.

Though Miko might have some magic steel-repair plant because Miko always has weird shit up her sleeves.

 

[Landale]

My guess is she's going to find Excalibur, guessing based on Avalon being used previously, or something similar down there and we get this page again but with Ginko and the dragon.

 

[Weoooo]

NOT THE MILLION FOLDED NIPPON STEEL! I WATCHED SEVERAL ANIMES WHERE IT CUT THROUGH OTHER SWORDS

 

[Weoooo]

Something that I wonder sometimes is
How strong is Ginko compared to other samurai of her time? I am pretty sure the earlier chapters showed that she was really strong even in our world but I wonder just how much she was compared to other "cream of the crop" samurai.

She's not "really strong," she's a mythical figure. Ginko's literally been trying to find someone who can kill her in combat her whole life. Nobody could. Like, renowned swordmasters and military engagements all didn't kill her.
It's one of her core tragic motivations: she doesn't think she should be alive. Everyone else in her unit during her first engagement died. She thinks she should've too. But nothing can kill her.

 

[Draconix81]

So much aura from the centaur combo panel only to get obliterated the next page

 

[Boomburst]

Something that I wonder sometimes is
How strong is Ginko compared to other samurai of her time? I am pretty sure the earlier chapters showed that she was really strong even in our world but I wonder just how much she was compared to other "cream of the crop" samurai.

Too strong. Her entire issue is that she's been trying to die a warrior's death against a superior foe. She got sent here by Buddha because there was no one on Earth who could do that.

 

[Exoginator]

The two henchmen had a cool introduction only to instantly get smoked by the dragon. Hilarious.

 

[SAshura]

There was a flashback where her mom pulled on her dad's ear and accidentally ripped it out.

So it seems like part of the excuse for Ginko is that she's an actual genetic freak born with absurd-for-a-human strength. That plus her dad training her since she was an infant.

I suspect she's not entirely human. Back when that witch attacked. the spell turned her arm into that of an oni's but didn't do much beyond that. Buddha is real back on Earth, so it's not much of a stretch to think other supernatural beings are/were as well. Considering how many half-human, half-youkai figures there are in Japanese mythology and pop culture Ginko probably also has something non-human somewhere back along her family line.

 

[fight2live]

i believe somewhere in this castle there is a treasure chest with a katana inside of it. find it, Ginko!

 

[JDSquare13]

My wife's precious katana, noooo she needs that for killing time

 

[beggarSoChan2020l2r3]

Ah broken sakabatou....

 

[kunyka]

LEAVE DRAGONS ALONE, BITCH.
WHY EVERYONE HATES DRAGOBS?!